PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!!

Sunday, Feb. 16, 7: - 8:30, led by Pam Sapko & Pam Seres

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born
to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead
father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for
survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice,
he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic
success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he
reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes
have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his
experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his
society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite
for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration.